406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

Soy un romántico desilusionado o un pesimista esperanzado. Cualquiera de las dos cosas.

Tal vez el hecho de alegrarse de los problemas ajenos hacía que los suyos y los de su esposo fueran menos perturbadores.

Tom Hiddleston is so fucking nice. It used to be in the past you were either nice, or you were good-looking and an asshole.

If we don't defend what we love-if we let it fade-then our lives lose meaning. We must declare ourselves of what we are...What we love.

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

It's a situation doomed enough to laugh at, but he thinks of what he used to tell his students. Imagine being a planet. Don't laugh, he'd tell them. Try to imagine it. Eons of loneliness, and then one day your ellipsis peaks toward that of another planet and there is a gasp of nearness. Wouldn't you try to make the most of it? Wouldn't you, too, combust and flare and explode if you had to?

I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city's pesky troll problem, and you're not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, 'Gee, thanks for the warning.' It'll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I'm sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can't let you ruin our lives.

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under?